Gilmore by the Sea

Hi Oregon Eddy here, your emcee for all these tall tales of Nye Beach and the Newport Bayfront. Home base is the Gilmore Hotel. Some of the characters are admittedly biographical all the bald ones especially. After all, wasn t it the writer Max Schulman who named all his characters Max, saying, fie on false modesty?

Now, I admit that calling oneself Oregon Eddy or Oregon anybody in the midst of a million other Oregonians could be considered ostentatious, but I picked up that name when I lived in San Francisco.

But let me get back to introducing our setting....

Almost a century ago, the Gilmore Hotel was a landmark for luxurious living at Nye Beach in Newport, a small town on the Central Oregon Coast. By the 1960s, owner William (Bill) Robinson provided low-cost housing for fishing and service workers, and retirees. These are their stories from the Gilmore Hotel s last days told by one of its residents in the style of a graphic novel, with real and surreal texts and cartoons.

One more thing. In 1987, the Gilmore once again became an elegant destination resort when it was reborn as the world-class Sylvia Beach Hotel by two ladies named Gudrun (Goody) Cable and Sally Ford. They keep the old charm intact.

Well, that s enuff Intro let s jump into our story.

First, the cast and then their tales....